Valerie Castile, mother of Philando Castile, a black man killed by a Minnesota police officer during a routine traffic stop in 2016, said the tragic death of George Floyd has reopened a tender wound. ⁣⁣

“I cried for that man just like I cried for my son,” she told VICE News.

Valerie Castile, mother of Philando Castile, a black man killed by a Minnesota police officer during a routine traffic stop in 2016, said the tragic death of George Floyd has reopened a tender wound. ⁣⁣

“I cried for that man just like I cried for my son,” she told VICE News.

Minnesota police released the dashcam footage taken during the 2016 shooting of black motorist Philando Castile, whose dying moments were captured on Facebook video in a case that shocked the nation. Jeronimo Yanez, 29, was found not guilty of all three charges he faced in the death of 32-year-old Castile: second-degree manslaughter and two felony counts of intentional discharge of a dangerous weapon for endangering the safety of Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her four-year-old daughter. ATTENTION EDITORS: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered for a third consecutive night of protests outside Baton Rouge police headquarters on Sunday night, following the deadly police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Police officers repeatedly ran at the protesters and used snatch squads to detain individual activists.

Riot police reportedly made dozens of arrests during a protest against police brutality in Baton Rouge, Saturday, as demonstrations against the police shooting of two black men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, continues to mobilise thousands across the US. Prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson was among those detained.

Five police officers have been killed in Dallas with a further seven injured. This followed mass protests that have been taking place following the fatal shooting of two black men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, by police.

Police officers and civilians could be seen running for cover amidst intermittent sounds of sniper fire in Dallas. Sniper rounds ripped through the Dallas night, killing 5 officers and wounding at least 6 more, during a protest against the police killing of African-Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Police reports indicate that two snipers fired multiple shots at officers from an elevated position in the city.

The girlfriend of Philando Castile who was fatally shot in a car Wednesday night by Minnesota police says he was ”never a bad man.” Diamond Reynolds, the woman who was in the car at the time of the shooting along with her daughter, says the police pulled them over for a broken tail light.

32-year-old Philando Castile was stopped over a broken tail light and shot – reportedly – after he moved to show his driving license. His girlfriend was in the car with him, and filmed what happened. The shooting took place just days after another killing of an African-American man by police officers – this time, in the US state of Louisiana.

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Protesters marched on Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton’s mansion in the state’s capital St. Paul, demanding justice after a police officer shot 32-year-old African-American Philando Castile dead. Lavish Reynolds, Castile’s girlfriend, recorded the bloody aftermath of the police shooting on her phone, after police pulled the couple over, along with Reynold’s daughter who sat in the backseat, for a broken taillight. Castile’s death comes just one day after the killing of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old African-American shot dead by two white police officers.